Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-17 Thread Pete McNeil
as spam and possibly take a sample. http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/core.jsp Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 twitter/codedweller --- This E-mail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-17 Thread Pete McNeil
Declude\SNF\SNFClient.exe" 10  0 Woops!! That's backward. It SHOULD be: SNIFFER-CAUTION    external    040    etc... SNIFFER-TRUNCATE    external    020    etc... Best, _M -- Pete McNeil, President

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-17 Thread Pete McNeil
? Yes. _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 twitter/codedweller --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type "unsubs

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-17 Thread Pete McNeil
didn't match any patterns I know, but I'll bet that it's just a bot I haven't seen before that's been lit up to send a new spam campaign. That reasoning is usually correct, but it's not as solid as the other result codes because it's guessing Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude? topic change - gbudb

2013-04-17 Thread Pete McNeil
because it will know about IPs that you may not have seen yet at your system. Best, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 twitter/codedweller --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-13 Thread Pete McNeil
anything about that? If Declude just evaporates without saying another word that would be a good thing to have. _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 twitter/codedweller --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] regex help needed

2012-01-13 Thread Pete McNeil
was We're digging into this one a bit right now -- Could you zip up a bunch of samples and send them to me please? We have several structural and content vectors to explore and I'm looking for exploitable commonalities. Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] regex help needed

2012-01-13 Thread Pete McNeil
getting here - I'll keep an eye out. Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] regex help needed

2012-01-13 Thread Pete McNeil
. At least 3 new structural abstracts are in play also. If you're not already using the truncate BL that might also help add some weight (I see you're using a lot of tests): http://gbudb.com/truncate/index.jsp Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Performance issues with SM 8.2 w Declude

2011-09-26 Thread Pete McNeil
, or Declude. On the surface I would suggest that RAM is your big problem. If you have 2G and you're using 5-10G then you are spending a lot of time swapping through IO. RAM is pretty cheap these days, so I would probably boost that first (not knowing more about it). _M -- Pete McNeil, President

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Solid State Drives

2011-09-23 Thread Pete McNeil
it other than expense and the relatively small size of SSDs -- even that shouldn't be a problem these days if you watch it closely. My experiment was many years ago. _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 --- This E-mail came from

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Question on SNF within Declude

2011-08-05 Thread Pete McNeil
://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/logFiles/ http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/logs/scan/xml.jsp Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] error 0xC0000142 smtp.exe

2011-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] error 0xC0000142 smtp.exe

2011-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
). You only need a larger number of threads when sending mail out because each thread may need to wait a significant amount of time for the outbound process to start and finish. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] error 0xC0000142 smtp.exe

2011-05-04 Thread Pete McNeil
he mystery heap. This search might help you find what you're looking for in previous discussions. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 --- This E-mail came from the Declud

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] error 0xC0000142 smtp.exe

2011-05-04 Thread Pete McNeil
rchive.com/search?q=0xC142l=declude.junkmail%40declude.com There is also a link buried in the KB article that leads here: http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=130 _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] How do you use NOLEGITCONTENT and IPNOTINMX

2011-04-08 Thread Pete McNeil
. http://www.gbudb.com/truncate/index.jsp _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type unsubscribe

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Pete McNeil
is tmpfs with a ton of extra RAM. Analogous to a RAM drive on Win* I suppose -but tmpfs will automatically extend itself to physical drives if the size explodes so that's something to watch for. _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam scores rising

2011-02-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On 2/11/2011 2:49 PM, IMail Admin wrote: But keeping the spam down is a bigger issue right now. You might try adding truncate to your RBLs. http://www.gbudb.com/truncate/index.jsp _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] porn spam

2010-12-13 Thread Pete McNeil
batch we see. Best, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 ---[This E-mail was scanned by Declude] ---This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. Tounsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] sniffer question

2010-12-13 Thread Pete McNeil
address. Please also let us know if we can improve our documentation. Thanks! _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 ---[This E-mail was scanned by Declude] ---This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
/node/gbudb/training/source-header.jsp If you configure this training mechanism for GBUdb in your Message Sniffer engine then GBUdb will become much more accurate for messages coming through that source. Best, _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
the black range and be scored accordingly. Other IPs sending messages through that system will be scored on their own merits. _M -- Pete McNeil, President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com 703.779.4909 x7010 --- [This E-mail was scanned by Declude] --- This E-mail came from

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What's wrong with my Declude?

2010-08-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On 8/1/2010 1:36 PM, Imail Admin wrote: Hi Pete, By SNF I assume you mean Sniffer? How do I tell for sure which version is running and whether it is getting the latest downloads? I know it's running at least partially because the report lists it. I checked the cfg file and it says

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What's wrong with my Declude?

2010-08-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On 8/1/2010 3:03 PM, Imail Admin wrote: Hi Pete, OK, I did the upgrade. One thing that was slightly different from the instructions was that even though I directed it to install into the same folder as the prior Sniffer installation (d:\imail\sniffer), it only offered me a choice of a new

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What's wrong with my Declude?

2010-07-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On 7/28/2010 2:29 PM, Imail Admin wrote: lately (last couple of weeks) I've noticed more spam getting through. A lot more. Check your SNF installation. I looked up your license ID and checked for your telemetry and did not find it. This usually means that SNF is not currently running on

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Regex to block this?

2010-07-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On 7/27/2010 2:10 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Flavour of the day: Relevant bits of the header: Received: from payoff.all-debt-forever.com [173.192.161.27] Subject: Stay on top of your credit report Thanks -- coded some rules, will be looking for abstract opportunities. Also coded several

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Regex to block this?

2010-07-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On 7/23/2010 2:29 PM, Matt wrote: This spammer accounts for about 7% of all E-mail that makes it to my deep scanning layer. Sniffer seems to miss a good deal of their spam, so there isn't much protection from it otherwise. Matt -- Is it possible for you to zip up some samples from this guy

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Regex to block this?

2010-07-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On 7/23/2010 6:37 PM, Matt wrote: Pete, Will do. I call this spammer Whitestone, Much appreciated. I'll take a closer look with the team to see what we can do to close these guys down better. Thanks! _M -- President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com --- [This E-mail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Regex to block this?

2010-07-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On 7/23/2010 9:19 PM, Matt wrote: I guess my point here is that they are both very high volume spammers, and they both randomize sufficiently so that blocking them requires blocking their domains and having the samples available, but putting in proactive rules will only last a short time.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer IP Reputation -- Graduated Weight Scheme

2010-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
On 5/5/2010 1:30 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi Dave, Hm yes,I think if you added 21 lines (from -10 to 0 and to +10) to the config file, you would have could cover the reputation range from -1 to +1 in 0.1 step increments. Not elegant but would have the same effect as

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer Integration - Multiple Exit Codes

2010-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
Title: Release 4.10.42 On 5/5/2010 3:24 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi Dave (just in case this got overlooked or I missed the answer), Also even though there are multiple entries the test only runs once and the resulted exit code is the triggered. I know that all 18

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer Integration - Multiple Exit Codes

2010-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
Title: Release 4.10.42 On 5/5/2010 4:05 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: snip/ The golden rule for external tests and for RBLs is if you have multiple lines using the SAME command (e.g., the 18 SNF lines), or referring to the same external program (e.g., 5 invURIBL lines), or

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer IP Reputation for white listing

2010-05-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On 4/30/2010 9:32 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: snip/ But your documentation of the reputation system has a graph that shows that there is yet another category: WHITE. I don't know the details of Declude's impelementation. Presumably they could (or maybe even do) implement WHITE. The

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer IP Reputation for white listing

2010-05-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On 5/1/2010 1:51 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: snip/ Right - that's the same scheme I just pointed out to Dave myself - except in my case you could pick a distinct factor for the "-" vs. the "+" side of the scale (because Declude already has that option anyhow) I was

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On 4/29/2010 10:06 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Thanks I activated it in my gateway and will report back after a day or so. Question: a) Does it have TXT records that holds additional info that can be returned in the 5.7.1 message to the sender? Right now all

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-30 Thread Pete McNeil
I wasn't aware 127.0.0.1 would cause trouble (does it?) It's easy enough to change, but everyone will need to know about the change and will need to change their setup. Please point me to "the standard" so I can understand where the problem is. Thanks! _M On 4/30/2010 1:17 PM, Andy Schmidt

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On 4/30/2010 1:17 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: It is and I agree with you! From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:53 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened

[Declude.JunkMail] Changing result code for truncate.gbudb.net to 127.0.0.2 effective immediately.

2010-04-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Declude Folks, RFC 5782 states: IPv4-based DNSxLs MUST NOT contain an entry for 127.0.0.1. and also states: The A record contents conventionally have the value 127.0.0.2 So we will be changing the result code for truncate.gbudb.net to 127.0.0.2 effective immediately. Thanks! _M

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer IP vs. Sniffer IP Reputation vs. Sniffer Truncate

2010-04-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On 4/30/2010 5:16 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi Pete, I'm look over Decludes recommended Sniffer configuration and trying to understand how much overlap there is between these options: IPREPUTATIONSNFIPREPx 0 10 -5 SNFIPCAUTIONSNFIP x

[Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-29 Thread Pete McNeil
Hi Declude folks, We have been testing a blacklist based on real-time GBUdb data (generated from Message Sniffer). We have decided to experiment with opening up the blacklist for a wider audience and so as of now you can use truncate.gbudb.net as an ip4r test. You should get a result of

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On 4/29/2010 5:50 PM, Nick Hayer wrote: Hi Pete, Question - is this blacklist info already contained withing any Sniffer test? I am wondering about double dipping so to speak - if the info is within Sniffer which rulebase? That's not an easy question -- If you are using SNF then your

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multistage filtering [OT]

2010-02-10 Thread Pete McNeil
Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, With the amount of spam I have to throw away each day no reaching consistant levels of over 90%... I can of course get an even faster mailserver but I think I would be better of with an extra smtp server in front of my mailserver which filters the most blatant spam

[Declude.JunkMail] truncate.gbudb.net looking for testers.

2010-01-22 Thread Pete McNeil
let us know that too. We have a limited number of slots open for testing. We look forward to hearing from you. Best, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) Chief Scientist ARM Research Labs --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Help Me Add Weight

2009-02-10 Thread Pete McNeil
Robert Grosshandler wrote: Sounds like a spam headline, doesn't it? Anyway, we're getting obvious spam, but we're not able to weight it enough to block it. Any tests you might suggest. The following came to us BCC'd, I believe. Nothing about it was appropriate for us. snip/

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] False positive -- Declude + Sniffer

2009-02-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Katie LaSalle-Lowery wrote: I have a situation I haven't seen before. Declude logs show that the message failed Sniffer, which caused the message to exceed our weight threshold and be deleted. Sniffer logs show that the message did not fail Sniffer. Actually that is not correct. The

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Issue

2008-09-01 Thread Pete McNeil
It's a tiny thing - but it might matter: When I dig for your spf record dig @ns1.cefib.com cefib.com -t txt I get: ;; ANSWER SECTION: cefib.com. 3540IN TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:217.64.107.106 -all On the surface it looks correct, but the -all should be ~all That is - it

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Issue

2008-09-01 Thread Pete McNeil
Ooops. I take that last post back I found something else looking more closely: ;; ANSWER SECTION: cefib.com. 3540IN TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:217.64.107.106 -all The mx should not be naked. Presumably what you wanted was this: v=spf1 mx:cefib.com ip4:217.64.107.106 ~all

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] RE: Thoughts on running DNS on the IMail (declude) server ???

2008-07-10 Thread Pete McNeil
We've done this in the past also -- it made quite a difference, especially on underpowered hardware. _M On Thursday, July 10, 2008, 5:18:30 PM, Fox,Thomas wrote: FT We do, it works really well. Quite Speedy!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] form spam filter

2008-04-09 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 10:01:56 AM, Craig wrote: Hi Darin, I guess what I am looking for from Declude (or a third party) is to provide me a filter that will phrase filter the incoming form mail and determine if its a spammy one or not. We may be able to help you. Please

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems

2008-02-29 Thread Pete McNeil
All of that is good advice -- but one extra thing drew my attention -- IMAP running 99% CPU -- in my mind that points to possible file system issues - What shape your file system is in: Is it badly fragmented? Are any of your drives performing badly? Also - has someone suddenly changed what

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems

2008-02-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 29, 2008, 8:14:41 AM, David wrote: snip/ 4) Review information on the Sniffer list about updating to the new service model. DD I should be on the latest version of Sniffer ... just renewed my DD contract ... haven't made any changes to the configuration in months.

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems

2008-02-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 29, 2008, 11:26:58 PM, David wrote: snip/ Short of installing a new network card / drive ... any other thoughts what to try It's a long shot - but if it were my server I would try it: Shut down IMAP. Temporarily shut down SMTP so that new mail doesn't go in

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Any Known issues Inv-URIBL today?

2008-02-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 2:09:23 PM, Herb wrote: Hi Randy; We have seen that often, in fact what we do is swap that test in on nights and weekends and out during weekdays (by just renaming the declude conf files with a schedule). It is a nice tool but will bog things down.

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam Increase?

2007-08-03 Thread Pete McNeil
Spam has significantly increased in the past 7 days due to new bot nets (from old friends) and a number of new tactics for generating pdf and related spam and their mutations. I've attached a new-spam/leakage analysis from our primary spamtraps- you can see that new traffic quite literally more

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Fidelity Independent Adviser

2007-07-18 Thread Pete McNeil
We are processing the FPs on this right now. The rule has been in place for 866 days without prior FP reports. It's going away now. Thanks, _M On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 9:15:13 PM, Darin wrote: DC We had one that was definitely an FP last week. Submitted and received a DC response that the

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Re: PDF spam detection

2007-06-29 Thread Pete McNeil
Use caution. The first part of the PDF file is common to many PDF files and coding for that will lead to false positives. The PDFs we're seeing are essentially boiler plate up to the first 12 lines (or so) of base64 encoded data, then there are some variable segments where the image display

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude/Sniffer Issues

2007-02-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:39:39 PM, Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I might add to this... Declude is topping SNF instances before they have time to work -- This causes job files (.XXX and so forth) to build up and cause other SNF instances to relax their timing - in theory to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] How Accurate is Sniffer?

2006-11-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 30, 2006, 10:25:25 PM, David wrote: DD I'm doing my 30 day trial of Message Sniffer .. at the moment it is 5 DD points out of 10 needed to mark something as spam. DD How accurate is Sniffer?Something that I can raise my weight on? These days many folks are setting SNF

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Flooded with spam

2006-08-31 Thread Pete McNeil
If this year goes like last year then much worse is yet to come. See the bottom of this chart: http://reports.messagesniffer.com/Performance/FlowRatesByDay.jsp _M On Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 9:24:34 PM, gbirdsall wrote: gsc I've seen a 100-130% increase since Sunday. An average day used to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Ping

2006-08-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Polo On Friday, August 11, 2006, 11:30:36 AM, David wrote: DB Ping DB --- DB This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To DB unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and DB type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found DB at

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] How to get support from sniffer....

2006-05-24 Thread Pete McNeil
Chuck, I stepped away for a while (started work today at midnight). I've found your FPs and I will address them immediately. I note you did not leave a message on the support line (that I can see). I'll take the rest of this off list. Thanks, _M On Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 2:12:39 PM, Chuck

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam

2006-05-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, May 19, 2006, 1:33:06 PM, Kevin wrote: KB Has anyone else seen an increase of spam since Blue Security wet offline?? KB We have seen an increase and we did not even use the software/service. We've noted a few bursts today but nothing completely out of the ordinary. _M --- This

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam

2006-05-19 Thread Pete McNeil
One thing that we noticed a few hours ago was a new image spam that has quite a bit of bandwidth behind it and all new zombies - perhaps that's a piece of it. _M On Friday, May 19, 2006, 3:30:33 PM, Rick wrote: RB Same here RB Rick RB -Original Message- RB From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RB

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] How would you create a filter for this?

2006-04-25 Thread Pete McNeil
I added an abstract for this text pattern to Message Sniffer today. We regularly create similar rules for other variations - these patterns are independent from the URI. _M On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 11:59:20 AM, Scott wrote: SF SF SF I might suggest something to target the links of the

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer in Persistent Mode using Windows Resource Kit Tools

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 9:28:16 AM, Dean wrote: DL Markus, DL   DL You still point to the executable in your global config file, DL but since sniffer is running in persistant mode, it doesn't DL automatically launch a new instance. That's almost correct... What happens is that the new

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer Invuribl

2005-10-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, October 2, 2005, 1:23:21 PM, Serge wrote: S Hi all, S   S I have been using sniffer for a year and recently add INVURIBL. S i am trying to find the corrolation between the 2 test to set the weight. S I tag at 10 and delete at 30.. S I had sniffer at 14. S now i added invuribl with a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer error in Declude log

2005-09-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, September 11, 2005, 11:46:12 PM, Kim wrote: KP Over the weekend, a lot of spam has been getting through. KP Checking the Declude JunkMail log file shows the following: KP09/10/2005 00:01:41.906 q84a2205001d48c60 ERROR: External KP program SNIFFER didn't finish quick enough;

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer Question

2005-09-02 Thread Pete McNeil
Sorry to but in - can't resist... ;-) The test will run only once, but it will be evaluated for each possible result (Declude is smart that way). You might even have more than one test use SNF and add weight.. for example, SNIFFER ... nonzero and SNFSPECIFIC ... result. Many folks and the AI

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Deleting emails based solely on Sniffer?

2005-04-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, April 14, 2005, 8:50:12 AM, Joey wrote: JP Can someone please explain to me why, if an email is flagged as spam by JP Sniffer, I shouldn't just delete it outright? Are there instances where JP Sniffer is wrong? Or is this the way you all use it already? JP Reason I ask is that I

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Running declude from another program

2005-04-11 Thread Pete McNeil
, passes everything correctly (including the environment), and calls declude for each pass. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong. Why do you want to do this? _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster - www.sortmonster.com --- This E-mail came

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Huge reduction in hold queue

2005-03-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 10:35:52 PM, Darin wrote: DC Pete, DC   DC Have you make significant changes to the sniffer rulebase in the past couple of days? DC   DC I'm seeing a _huge_ reduction in hold queue messages... DC roughly down 65%... while total message volume is steady.  Only DC

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Huge reduction in hold queue

2005-03-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 31, 2005, 9:50:05 AM, Darin wrote: DC That is very significant, and could explain what I'm seeing. I'm going to DC increase my delete weight a bit for a while to make sure there are no high DC FPs. DC I do see the following detection rates from yesterday (3/30) DC AHBL

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude performance question

2005-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 11:00:49 AM, Chase wrote: snip/ CS   Looking at our test list (posted bellow), we likely have WAY too CS many dns blacklists. That will be the first thing I look at. Any CS other suggestions? I have had luck running a DNS server (resolver - bind) locally on the IMail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude performance question

2005-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 11:00:49 AM, Chase wrote: CS I need some help tuning Declude for performance. Up until One other thought (pushed send too fast). You may have a test or two in there that is not responding --- causing things to time out and slow things down. If you can find it and drop

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude performance question

2005-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 11:29:09 AM, Chase wrote: CS I don' have UCEPROTECRDO, XBL-DYNA, BLKLST-SURBL CS and HELOISIP. Can you post your definitions for those? Can I get CS them off the declude website somehow (I couldn't find them)? UCEPROTECRDOip4rdnsbl-1.uceprotect.net

Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] Automated requeuing

2005-03-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 3:33:36 PM, Darin wrote: DC I'll gladly try it and pass whatever data back for study. Thanks. I will contact you later off list. Best, _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Hard time with Drugs SPAM

2005-03-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 14, 2005, 4:40:26 PM, Darin wrote: DC Yep...It does seem to be getting worse. Sniffer is catching a lot, but a DC lot is still slipping through, due mostly to constantly changing domain DC names of various ages. DC We're just supplementing Sniffer and blacklists with internal

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Automated requeuing

2005-03-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 14, 2005, 5:59:15 PM, Markus wrote: MG 2.) Log file processing with MDLP (Modular Declude Logfile MG Processor) written by Pete McNeil This tool does extremely fast MG parsing of declude jm logfiles. Pete's primary intention was to MG write a tool that's able to analyze results

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Log Corruption

2005-03-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 5:38:54 PM, Darrell wrote: Dsic I though Pete had some locking mechanism built in to prevent overlapping. Dsic Pete? Yes. This is it. (quite a lot of locking actually) This is a pet peeve of mine so I'm going to go just slightly off topic - it might help someone

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Log Corruption

2005-03-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 5:48:17 PM, Andrew wrote: CA (Pete isn't here much) :-( I do usually lurk though... I'll try to post more often... ;-) _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Log Corruption

2005-03-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 7:14:31 PM, Darin wrote: DC I disagree with the struggling server logic. We saw the log corruption in a DC test environment a year ago that had minimal traffic, say a couple thousand DC messages a day. It was a dual 1.4GHz processor with 1 GB RAM and 10k RPM DC SCSI

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] casino spam

2005-02-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 25, 2005, 5:50:45 PM, Glenn wrote: GW I've seen several kinds of spam increase in the last day. We're seeing a new porn campaign, a new kiddie porn campaign, a ramp-up of the current M$ software rip-off (media-theft) spam. We've seen a bit of a pick-up in the casino stuff

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] casino spam

2005-02-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 25, 2005, 6:11:58 PM, David wrote: DB Which can under certain circumstances be correct. If you had DB signed up with the website then declude is correct in identifying DB them as legitimate email. It is possible we could set up some DB additional filters to help with a

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Anyone with an updated Global.cfg?

2005-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Just adding to the end of the thread here... The demo of SNF is meant more to help you get things working on your system than to prove it can capture spam. The demo rulebase is behind the registered version quite a bit -- Folks have already told you that though :-) For a look at BLs to try and

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Anyone with an updated Global.cfg?

2005-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 3:06:03 PM, Scott wrote: SF -Mad, SF Will there be an MDLP page explaining some of the columns? SF SQ= Spam Test Quality? SF SI = Spam Test Result Important Count? SF avgSD = Average Spam Test Dominance? Yes. Once I get a few minutes to rub together I'll make

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam tests by months

2005-02-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 5:55:48 AM, Markus wrote: MG Hi Scott, MG   MG great stat's ! MG   MG A question about SNIFFER MG It seems you have a much longer list of different SNIFFER return codes then I MG Is there somewhere a complete list? MG   MG Markus Is this what you are looking

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] domain name a name

2005-02-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 11, 2005, 8:51:46 AM, Darin wrote: DC Most of what slips through our filters is exactly this. Unfortunately I DC know of no way to block this short of reacting to the first one seen and DC adding a body filter for the URL...the same thing Message Sniffer or any DC SURBL list

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] domain name a name

2005-02-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 11, 2005, 9:28:28 AM, Darin wrote: DC Hi Pete, DC Right... but the first few typically slip through before they're added to DC your filters (like they would for anyone)...so we add them on the first DC report to us as well. I'll raise the feature request again --- as soon as

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] inserting Sniffer log info into header

2005-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, February 7, 2005, 7:14:03 PM, Andy wrote: AS Interesting sounds like someone would have to write an AS External Filter.  Unless Declude is willing to integrate this AS in their Sniffer support. AS   AS When you turn this one - where do this XHDR files appear?  AS In the regular

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Outsourcing email

2005-02-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 4, 2005, 7:06:04 PM, Matt wrote: M John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: Yeah, but a little birdie told me that the president can get a little hot some times. M Where's that birdie located? I'll shoot it if it has been saying bad M things about me :) You have to keep the

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Outsourcing email

2005-02-04 Thread Pete McNeil
There are a bunch in this list I think... http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Referrals.html _M On Friday, February 4, 2005, 6:27:07 PM, Danny wrote: D Looking for a email provider that includes email services, D spam, virus detection, all in one package that has an excellent up D time,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DNSSTUFF.COM Web Site Down?

2005-01-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, January 28, 2005, 7:32:39 AM, Kim wrote: KP It's 4:30A PST, and I cannot access the 'dnsstuff.com' web KP site. Is anyone else having the same problem? Works fine from here. _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail

[Declude.JunkMail] ping

2005-01-24 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello declude, ping Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] High smtp traffic

2005-01-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 10, 2005, 12:10:32 PM, Markus wrote: MG Anyone else can see an abnormal high smtp traffic this minutes? MG I haven't identified completely but something strnage is going one here. Lot MG of NDR's We have been seeing what I would classify as a severe spam storm today starting

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] FW: [sniffer] Sniffer Notifications now failing declude spamheaders test

2005-01-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 3, 2005, 11:30:22 AM, Marc wrote: MC I don't mean to be a nag but this was just posted to the MC sniffer forum and is exactly what I was talking about. It is MC almost 48 hours after the first post discussing this bug and MC there is still no e-mail from Declude that I am

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] URI Blacklist External Program Beta Now Posted For Download

2004-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
Since URI are a subset of the SNF rulebase it's not unlikely that there would be quite a bit of overlap. The key differences would be that SNF does not use any network resources to look up the URI and SNF does not waste any time examining URI that are not known to be seen in spam -- One of the

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] SURBL vs. Sniffer?

2004-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 11:06:59 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi Pete, AS Is Sniffer performing URI checks as part of certain return codes only - AS e.g., if I were to use SURBL to augment Sniffer, are there certain Sniffer AS Return Codes that are likely to overlap with SURBL lookups - or have all

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] SURBL vs. Sniffer?

2004-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 11:06:59 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi Pete, AS Is Sniffer performing URI checks as part of certain return codes only - Sorry to respond twice but I want to clear up some potential confusion - SNF includes URI as part of it's pattern matrix. It does not do any specific

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] tools/weights

2004-12-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, 7:36:15 PM, Bennie wrote: B OK... I have downloaded the trail of sniffer and installed per the B instructions... added the lines to my Declude.cfg and $default$.junkmail. B Now I am getting no warnings in the headers... how can I look to see if the B test is

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